| AVATAR STORYLINE | | | | Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement |
| In 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, a | | | | for his brother, and relegates him to a bodyguard |
| lush, Earth-like moon of the planet Polyphemus. | | | | role. |
| Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) heads the mining | | | | Jake escorts Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman |
| operation, and it employs former marines for security. | | | | (Joel David Moore) on an exploratory mission in their |
| The corporation intends to exploit Pandora's reserves | | | | avatar forms to make contact with the Na'vi, in |
| of a valuable mineral called unobtanium. Pandora is | | | | order to help establish diplomatic relations to solve |
| inhabited by the Na’vi, a blue-skinned neolithic | | | | the problem of resources and end the constant |
| species of sapient humanoids with feline | | | | threat of violence. The group is attacked by a large |
| characteristics. Physically stronger and taller than | | | | predator, and Jake becomes separated and lost. |
| humans, the Na'vi live in harmony with Nature, | | | | Attempting to survive the night in Pandora’s |
| worshiping a mother goddess called Eywa. | | | | dangerous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoe |
| Humans cannot survive exposure to Pandora’s | | | | Saldaña), a female Na'vi. Neytiri brings Jake to |
| atmosphere for very long and use oxygen masks. In | | | | Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri’s clan, |
| an attempt to improve relations with the natives, | | | | the Omaticaya. Mo'at (C. C. H. Pounder), the Na'vi |
| scientists create human-Na’vi hybrids called | | | | shaman and Neytiri's mother, shows interest in the |
| avatars, controlled by genetically-matched human | | | | warrior "Dream-walker" (their term for the Avatars), |
| operators. The scientists also lead schools for the | | | | and instructs her daughter to teach Jake their ways. |
| Na'vi to learn English and to interact with the humans. | | | | Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), leader of the |
| Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic former | | | | security forces for RDA, promises Jake his "real legs" |
| marine, becomes a last-minute replacement for his | | | | back in exchange for intelligence about the natives |
| identical twin brother, a recently-murdered scientist | | | | and what it will take for them to abandon Hometree, |
| trained to be an avatar operator. Dr. Grace Augustine | | | | which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium...... |
| (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar | | | | |